alliterate
See also: aliterate
English
Etymology
Back-formation from alliteration.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈlɪ.tə.ɹeɪt/
Verb
alliterate (third-person singular simple present alliterates, present participle alliterating, simple past and past participle alliterated)
- (intransitive) To exhibit alliteration.
- (transitive) To use (a word or sound) so as to make alliteration.
- 1888, George Theodore Dippold, Richard Wagner's Poem the Ring of the Nibelung: Explained and in Part Translated:
- It is a strophe of six lines, of which the first and second and the fourth and fifth belong together, while the third and sixth are independently alliterated.
Synonyms
- (exhibit alliteration): alliterize
Derived terms
Translations
to exhibit alliteration
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